Cajun Notebook

Montoya named SBC top offensive honor

For the fourth time this season, a member of the UL Ragin' Cajuns soccer team was named Player of the Week by the Sun Belt Conference office. Freshman Yazmin Montoya was given the honor after scoring four goals in the Cajuns' 5-2 victory over Texas State.

It is the first time Montoya has picked up player of the week honors, and the fourth time for the team in 2013. Four players of the week ties South Alabama for the most by one team in the conference this season.

Montoya continued what has become a very good stretch during conference play, scoring her first career hat-trick in the first half of Friday's game against Texas State. She followed up her first-half hat-trick with a fourth goal in the second half, leading the Cajuns to a 5-2 victory.

Auxilien named SBC defensive award

After helping the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns volleyball team to victories over Georgia State and UALR, libero Caitlyn Auxilien was selected Monday as the Sun Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Week in a release by the league office.

Auxilien, from Mandeville, averaged 5.0 digs per set last week for the Ragin' Cajuns (15-8, 5-4 Sun Belt Conference). She opened the week with 25 digs, and added four assists and three service aces, in a come-from-behind five-set victory over visiting Georgia State on Friday.

The junior came back on Sunday in a four-set victory at then co-leader UALR, collecting 20 digs and dishing out a career-high tying five assists. The four-set victory was the third straight for the Ragin' Cajuns and its second against the league co-leader in a week following a five-set thriller over No. 29 WKU on Oct. 13.

The selection of Auxilien, a former Fontainebleau High product, was the first for the Ragin' Cajuns since the duo of Lindsay Brown (Defense) and Lesley Mirarchi (Offense) were selected on Sept. 27, 2010.

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Cajun Notebook

For the fourth time this season, a member of the UL Ragin' Cajuns soccer team was named Player of the Week by the Sun Belt Conference office. Freshman Yazmin Montoya was given the honor after scoring